Why myanmar killing muslims

The country where Facebook posts whipped up hate. It sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Why did they flee their homes?

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC saw the remains of burned villages on a tightly controlled government trip to Rakhine state.

What has the international response been? How did this peace icon end up at a genocide trial? What is happening to the Rohingya now? What about the refugees? What awaits any Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar? Related Topics.

Myanmar Bangladesh Asia migrant crisis Rohingya Migration. Published 24 December Published 5 March. Published 10 September Published 3 September Published 19 November Published 24 August UN investigators say as many as 10, Rohingya — a Muslim minority in this Buddhist-majority nation — were killed.

Another , Rohingya fled the massacre for Bangladesh, joining , Rohingya who had previously fled oppression in Myanmar. Suu Kyi said during hearings at the Hague on Dec. The Conversation has been following the Rohingya crisis closely. The Rohingya story begins well before the s, with the British colonization of Myanmar in the s. The British encouraged migrant laborers to come and work the rice fields of Myanmar, drawing many Rohingya into the country from neighboring areas.

In exchange for political support, the British promised to give the Rohingya their own Muslim territory within Myanmar, then called Burma. More than , Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since the military campaign of ethnic cleansing began in August The government denied extensive evidence of atrocities, refused to allow independent investigators access to Rakhine State, and punished local journalists for reporting on military abuses.

Min Aung Hlaing, to face investigation and prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The constitution places the Ministries of Defense, Home Affairs, and Border Affairs under the control of the military. Over 30, civilians were newly displaced by fighting in Kachin and Shan States in , and left increasingly vulnerable by government restrictions on humanitarian access.

More than 14, Rohingya fled to Bangladesh between January and November to escape ongoing persecution and violence in Myanmar, joining almost 1 million others from and previous years in precarious, overcrowded camps. Conditions remain dire for the estimated ,, Rohingya still in Rakhine State.

Refugees who arrived in Bangladesh in reported continuing abuses by Myanmar security forces, including killings, arson, enforced disappearances, extortion, severe restrictions on movement, and lack of food and health care. They also reported sexual violence and abductions of women and girls in villages and at checkpoints along the route to Bangladesh. Returnees to Myanmar faced arrest and torture by authorities.

Rohingya refugees who fled in reported that Myanmar authorities had ordered them to accept the National Verification Card NVC —which does not provide citizenship—or leave Myanmar. Successive governments have for decades deprived Rohingya of nationality through systematic and institutionalized marginalization, rendering them stateless.

From January to March , at least 34 villages in Myanmar were completely or partially destroyed, bringing the total number of predominantly Rohingya villages destroyed between August and March to , most by fire. The government also seized and bulldozed dozens of Rohingya villages, destroying evidence of crimes. Authorities began construction over the demolished villages, including new security force bases.

More than , Muslims—about , Rohingya and 3, Kaman—remain in detention camps in central Rakhine State, where they have been confined since , arbitrarily deprived of their liberty. The government barred the UN fact-finding mission and special rapporteur on Myanmar from the country. Authorities have repeatedly denied that significant security force abuses took place, setting up successive investigations that lacked independence or credibility. Myanmar claimed throughout that it was ready to accept repatriated refugees, yet showed no willingness to create conditions for safe and dignified returns or address the root causes of the crisis.

Bangladesh and Myanmar announced in October that the first round of repatriation of 2, Rohingya refugees would begin in mid-November, a proposal opposed by the UN refugee agency UNHCR and Rohingya refugee community, neither of which had been consulted. Returns were suspended following widespread opposition; no official repatriations had taken place at time of writing. Smith said these soldiers may be the first criminals from Myanmar, and first insider witnesses at the ICC.

Payam Akhavan, an international legal expert at McGill University in Canada and also a former adviser for Bangladesh in the investigation of Rohingya Muslims at the ICC, emphasized that two soldiers should be held accountable to prevent the , Rohingya in Myanmar from being subjected to a similar atrocity.

A little bit of justice is better than no justice to anyone," Akhavan said. In August , the and Light Infantry Battalions conducted "cleansing operations" in Buthidaung and Maungdaw. In , clashes broke out in Arakan between Buddhists and Muslims.

Thousands of people, mostly Muslims, were massacred and hundreds of homes and work places were set on fire. On Aug. According to the report published by the Ontario International Development Agency in August , at least 24, Rohingya Muslims have been killed by the Myanmar army since Aug. While the soldiers threw in fire 34, Rohingya Muslims, they also battered , Rohingya. International human rights organizations -- with satellite images they have published -- have proven that hundreds of villages have been destroyed.

The UN and international human rights organizations call violence against Rohingya Muslims "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide". World , Asia - Pacific Myanmar soldiers confess to 'genocide' against Rohingya 2 soldiers who fled Myanmar admit they killed Rohingya Muslims, buried them in mass graves, raped women Busra Selvi Ogutcen